Viewing articles from 2014/12

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris

David Altmejd: Flux

The Flux and The Puddle

Altmejd's sculptures and installations function like strata, assembling timeless sediments in a sudden, exhilarating, dreamlike explosion.

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Museo MADRE, Via Luigi Settembrini, 79, 80139 Napoli, Italy

Walid Raad: Preface

THE ATLAS GROUP (1989-2004) Let’s be honest the weather helped: Switzerland

The first solo exhibition in an Italian public institution dedicated to one of the most influential artists of the Middle-Eastern art scene.

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Von Lintel Gallery, 2685 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90034, USA

Canan Tolon: LIKE

Exhibition view

Canan Tolon's paintings and drawings are exercises in perception, suspended between truth and illusion, stasis and flux.

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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 East Second Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, USA

Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns

Ribs

A major survey of a generation of artists working in the violent and uncertain decade following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, collecting and revealing previously unreported information.

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North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN)

The work of Narbi Price

Commissioned by the North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), this is one of eight films that will be exclusively launched on the site over the next eight weeks.

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The NewBridge Project, 16 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8AW, UK

37 Pieces of Flair

37 Pieces of Flair, Installation view at the NewBridge project (2014)

‘37 Pieces of Flair’ engages a thoughtful and humorous reflection on our perceptions and misconceptions of the ‘ordinary’ and the effect this has on the wellbeing of our collective mental health. Review by Peter-Ashley Jackson

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Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna, Austria

Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil

Installation view: Gareth Long, Kidnappers Foil, Kunsthalle Wien 2014, Photo: Stephan Wyckoff

Kidnappers Foil is both the title of an exhibition by artist Gareth Long and the title of more than 200 films by American filmmaker Melton Barker. From the mid-1930s into the early 1970s Barker ventured around the USA making the same film over and over. Most prints of these films no longer exist, but around fourteen have been preserved and Gareth Long will assemble and screen them for the first time since the films were made at Kunsthalle Wien.

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Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP

HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE

House Work Castle Milk Woman House, Books

HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE seeks to record the history of the 'Castlemilk Womanhouse' project in a way that resists reducing it to a one-dimensional, mythological ‘participatory’ piece, retaining feminist politics by writing narratives from the ground up. Review by Catherine Spencer

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North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN)

The work of Faye Green

Commissioned by the North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), this is one of eight films that will be exclusively launched on the site over the next eight weeks.

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